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7 December 2016

Starry Night (Earrings)

The idea for the new jewellery project was swirling around my mind exactly like the spirals in the sky in the picture... I only had to catch it to put in the definite shape. So when in our local store I suddenly saw a reproduction of Van Gogh's painting to embroider with seed beads, I decided it was the sign and bought it at once:-) The initial idea transformed into the earrings pretty quickly after I started working on the picture so I guess while going on with embroidering, the earrings will get the companions as well:-)

The earrings are compiled with three elements: bezeled 8 mm chaton, and 12 mm rivoli and a drop.

To bezel the chaton I followed this tutorial from +Jill Wiseman. To bezel the rivoli I started with the same 12 seed beads but then added the rays of five seed beads. Besides, I substituted the bicones for 8.0 and added 15.0, 8.0, 15.0 instead. The rivoli has no 15.0: all is the same but made only with 10.0 and 8.0.

To join the elements I tried a couple of variants but finally used loops from 15.0 and a ring (a drop) and 15.0 and 8.0 to join the rivoli and the chaton.